Kuiper Painting

Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905 – 1973) was a Netherlands-born American astronomer. He worked for many years at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The Kuiper Belt, a massive ring of dwarf planets — including Pluto — asteroids and frozen objects of water, methane and ammonia, is named for him though he did not discover it, only theorized that it existed. He did discover moons of Uranus and Neptune and several binary stars. Craters on the Moon, Mars and Mercury are named for him along with a minor planet, Kuiper 1776.